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Barack Obama condemns 'ignorant and hateful' Holocaust deniers
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| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Saturday, June 6, 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In a thinly veiled attack on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who on Tuesday branded the Holocaust a "big deception", he said the site was the "ultimate rebuke" to people who questioned the killing.
Mr Obama laid a single white rose at a grey slate memorial in the former camp in eastern Germany, where 56,000 people died at the hands of the Nazis.
He then toured former barracks, crematory ovens and guard towers with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and a former camp inmate whose father died of starvation at Buchenwald.
"To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened, a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful," said Mr Obama, the first American President to visit Buchenwald.
"This place is the ultimate rebuke of those thoughts – a reminder of our duty to confront those who tell lies about our history. These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time."
The president's visit was seen as a gesture of solidarity towards Israel and American Jews, a day after he sought to reach out to the Muslim world with his keynote speech in Cairo.
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